Inner
City Press had
put its name
on the
question list.
But only five
were
taken, and it
was far from
balance. The
first
question, by
some
unwritten and
now archaic
and
indefensible
rule, went to
Pamela Falk
of CBS, as the
president of
the UN
Correspondents
Association.

Next
was an UNCA
Executive
Committee
member from L'Orient
le Jour on
whom
we will not
comment. Then
Al Jazeera,
which
alongside
excellent
reporting on
Haiti and the
like totes the
Qatari royal
family's line
on most things
Middle East.
Then two US
media, Fox and
Associated
Press. And
that was it.

It was like
the UN's
Saturday
briefing on
August 31 -
because it was
an hour and a
half before
Obama spoke,
or
was scheduled
to start, in
the Rose
Garden, it was
picked up all
over. The UN
has a built-in
bully pulpit.
But how is it
being used?
Watch this
site.